In July 2010, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library (GWLB) received the estate of the Wendland court gardener family from Herrenhausen as a deposit. The travelogue of Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1792-1869), which the court gardener had made during his five-month educational journey through Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1820. This travelogue is a historical and professional record of exceptional quality.
The project aims to transcribe, edit and scientifically evaluate and publish the records of the Herrenhäuser Hofgärtner. It also has a pilot function in the multi-stage research programme 'Travels and Travel Reports of Court Gardeners in the Context of a History of Professionalisation of the Higher Gardening Profession - Travel Diaries of Higher Court and State Officials as Testimonies of European Gardening Knowledge'.
